Literary usage of Tightener

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1.Vehicles of the Air: A Popular Exposition of Modern Aeronautics with Working by Victor Lougheed (1910)"N is a clip for clamping wooden hars together, and O it a wire tightener, similar
to that in Figure 183, the application of which does not ..."

2.Vehicles of the Air: A Popular Exposition of Modern Aeronautics with Working by Victor Lougheed (1910)"N is a cllp for clamping wooden hars together, and O is a wire tightener, ...
and in Figure 183 a wire tightener that avoids cutting the wire. ..."

3.Rope-driving: A Treatise on the Transmission of Power by Means of Fibrous Ropes by John Joseph Flather (1900)"As the rope leaves the fly-wheel at the left-hand side it runs over an idler,
and from thence to a tension-pulley, or tightener, which is suspended in such ..."

5.Proceedings of National Convention (1919)"tightener, for she enwrapped and devoured everyone who could not answer her
riddle, but was herself doomed to perish the moment the true answer was given. ..."

6.Handbook of Milling Details (1914)"Belt tighteners Belt tightener for Bucket Elevators (By J. Frank Haley).—Details
of a belt tightener used at the mill of the Big Three Mining Co., ..."